February 5, 1908 - Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle:
"I am afraid I'm a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E."
The Hollywood Sign was the project of the Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler who … [Read more...]

February 4, 1918- Ida Lupino:
"My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England. I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."
Director, producer, … [Read more...]

February 3, 1956 - Nathan Lane:
"I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades."
In the midst of all sexual harassment allegations that swirled around Harvey Weinstein last autumn, Lane recalled his own encounter with … [Read more...]

February 2, 1947- Farrah Fawcett:
''I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer, and there is something that may not be very clear to me right now, that I will do.''
It was the face that launched a million push pins. An iconic 1976 Bruce … [Read more...]

February 1, 1926- Vivian Maier:
''We have to make room for other people. It's a wheel. You get on. You go to the end. And someone else has the same opportunity to go to the end. And so on. And somebody else takes their place.''
Vivian Dorothy Maier was an … [Read more...]

January 31, 1902- Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
"I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom."
Today we celebrate the birthday of Miss Tallulah Bankhead. I am a gay man of a certain age, and in my time, in my tribe, … [Read more...]

January 30, 1937- Vanessa Redgrave:
''Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.''
Nearly 60 years of working on stage, from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) to Richard III with Ralph Fiennes (2016), Vanessa Redgrave has also enchanted and enraged in more than … [Read more...]

January 29, 1960– Greg Louganis:
"I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama."
It takes tenacity to continue having a crush on someone for 40+ years, but here I am, still dreamy over Greg Louganis, who is still … [Read more...]

January 28, 1873– Colette:
"Do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm".
Her name was Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvanel Goudeket, but smartly, she went simply by "Colette".
Colette put herself out to the world as an ingénue, an innocent … [Read more...]

January 27, 1948 - Михаи́л Никола́евич Бары́шников:
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself."
I know, you think of male ballet dancers and you immediately think gay. Yet, we know it is a broken stereotype and Mikhail Baryshnikov … [Read more...]